 MHoltumPremium
join:2001-02-26
Tempe, AZ
kudos:3 | Nvidia - Ubuntu 11.10 and dual monitors.. Seems Ubuntu Nvidia Drivers are broke when it comes to running 2 monitors, but found a solution that worked for me and my two monitors are up and running. I thought i'd share this with you.
I followed these steps and everything worked fine.
Try to completely remove your nvidia drivers from your system:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
Remove your xorg.conf
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Reinstall xorg completely
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
Re-configure Xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Reboot
sudo reboot
After the reboot my monitors were both displaying the same picture so i opened the "Displays" Setting from System Settings and i uncheked the "mirror displays" option.
i hope this will help you guys.
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 firephotoKDEPremium
join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA
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| If you use "nvidia" drivers then you don't use the system tool to configure the monitors you use the nvidia-settings program and let it modify the xorg.conf or modify it yourself or use the program to load your settings every time your session starts. Blame the people that make the system tool incompatible for it not working like you'd expect with the nvidia driver.
And xorg.conf for two displays non-mirrored, second one right of the main display contains this.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "twinview"
Option "twinviewOrientation" "RightOf"
EndSection
Your instructions are fine but it might be unclear to some that it is removing the nvidia-glx drivers and returning to the default of using the nouveau which happens with the nvidia* purge. :)
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